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2021

Intense Workouts Right Before Bed Could Cost You Sleep

Intense Workouts Right Before Bed Could Cost You SleepTHURSDAY, Oct. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If you intend to run, bike or put in a Zumba video after work, plan on doing it sooner rather than later. A workout that ends a couple of hours before bedtime should help you fall asleep, while one that's closer to bedtime could have you counting a lot of sheep."Overall, our analysis showed that when exercise ended two hours before bedtime, there were sleep benefits, including the promotion of sleep onset and increased sleep duration," said study co-author Emmanuel Frimpong, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sleep, Cognition and Neuroimaging Lab at Concordia University in Montreal. "On the other hand, when exercise ended less than two hours before bedtime, sleep was negatively impacted. It took longer for participants to fall asleep and sleep...

U.S. to Buy $1 Billion Worth of Rapid COVID Tests

6 October 2021
U.S. to Buy $1 Billion Worth of Rapid COVID TestsWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administration said Wednesday that it plans to purchase $1 billion worth of rapid, at-home coronavirus tests and take other actions to quadruple the number of tests available to Americans by December.By the end of the year, the number of at-home tests should increase to 200 million a month, according to the White House, which will also expand the number of pharmacies in the federal government's free testing program to 20,000, an administration official told the Washington Post.Increasing access to rapid tests is long overdue, public health experts said."This is a big deal," Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told the Post. "The White House is beginning to take testing as seriously...

WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine, a Lifesaver for...

6 October 2021
WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine, a Lifesaver for Children WorldwideWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The first vaccine to protect against malaria has been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and could prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of children a year.Malaria kills about half a million people worldwide annually. Nearly all of those deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and include 260,000 children under the age of 5, The New York Times reported.The Mosquirix vaccine is given in three doses between the ages of 5 months and 17 months, with a fourth dose about 18 months later.In clinical trials, the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine was about 50% effective against severe malaria in the first year, but that fell to close to zero by the fourth year, the Times reported.After the clinical trials, the vaccine was incorporated into routine...

As You Age, Your 'Microbiome' Changes

6 October 2021
As You Age, Your `Microbiome` ChangesWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The key to eternal youth may lie in our guts.Advancing age seems to change the makeup of the microbiome in the small intestine, and in the future, it may be possible to tweak this bacterial milieu and boost longevity, new research suggests.The gut microbiome is made up of trillions of microorganisms and their genetic material. The diversity of these organisms is believed to play a role in promoting health and well-being.With normal aging, the bacteria in the small intestine shift from microbes that prefer oxygen (aerobic bacteria) to those that can survive with less oxygen (anaerobic bacteria). There is also an increase in coliform bacteria in relation to other organisms with advancing age, the study showed.The new study is observational and...

COVID Hospitalizations Are Rising Among Unvaccinated Pregnant Women

6 October 2021
COVID Hospitalizations Are Rising Among Unvaccinated Pregnant WomenWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Since the rise of the Delta variant, one Texas hospital has seen a surge in severe COVID-19 among pregnant women — nearly all unvaccinated.Researchers at the Dallas hospital found that in late August and early September, 10% to 15% of pregnant patients who tested positive for COVID-19 needed to be hospitalized for severe illness.That was more than double the percentage of a year ago."We had an influx of severe illness that came rapidly," said lead researcher Dr. Emily Adhikari, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.And all but one of those hospitalized patients, her team found, were unvaccinated.The findings, published online recently in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, come...

Could Too Little Iron Boost Your Risk for Heart Disease?

6 October 2021
Could Too Little Iron Boost Your Risk for Heart Disease?WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Iron is vital to health, and too little in your diet might lead to heart disease, European researchers report.They said about 1 in 10 new cases of heart disease in middle-aged people might be prevented if they had sufficient levels of iron in their diets."Our findings are based on an observational study and can therefore only report on associations, not on causality," said lead researcher Dr. Benedikt Schrage."This being said, our findings indicate that iron deficiency might be a suitable target for preventive measures in the general population and support the conduction of trials which explore the efficacy of iron supplementation in individuals with functional iron deficiency," said Schrage, of the general and interventional cardiology...

AHA News: Another Barrier for Black and Hispanic People: Good Mental Health Care

6 October 2021
AHA News: Another Barrier for Black and Hispanic People: Good Mental Health CareWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Living with a mental health disorder isn't easy. It can carry the weight of stigma, making you feel different. For people who face racial and ethnic discrimination, experts say the added "otherness" of mental illnesses may prove one hurdle too many in reaching the help they need."They might not want to share that they are having a problem with members of their family or community, for fear of being discriminated against or treated differently," said Alice Villatoro, an assistant professor in the public health program at Santa Clara University in California. "They are already treated as an 'other' as a minority, and don't want to add to that."Fear of discrimination and stigma is just one of the many complex barriers...

U.S. Murder Rate Up 30% During Pandemic, Highest One-Year Rise Ever

6 October 2021
U.S. Murder Rate Up 30% During Pandemic, Highest One-Year Rise EverWEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The rate at which homicide is taking the lives of Americans jumped by 30% over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic — the largest year-to-year increase ever, new federal government figures show.The rate jumped from 6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2019 to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2020, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).The previous largest year-to-year increase was a 20% increase from 2000 to 2001, and that rise was largely driven by the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, when nearly 3,000 people perished. The new figures didn't come as a surprise to one emergency medicine doctor."Emergency physicians are continuing to follow an increasingly...

Nearly 200,000 COVID Home Tests Recalled Over False...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 200,000 Ellume COVID-19 home testing kits have been recalled because they may be more likely to give a false positive result.The problem with the...

Tree Rings Show Hurricanes Becoming Wetter, Longer, More...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The rings of stately pines on the coasts of North and South Carolina offer telling long-term evidence of climate change and a chilling forecast for the...
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